ANTHONY'S BLOG ENTRY: “Twenty-first century education won’t be defined by any new technology. It won’t be defined by 1:1 laptop programs or tech-intensive projects. Twenty-first century education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching—a shift towards learner-centered education and creating creative thinkers. Today’s world is no longer content with students who can simply apply the knowledge they learned in school: our generation will be asked to think and operate in ways that traditional education has not, and can not, prepare us for."
To be open minded, I guess I can accept this. However, we should not get too carried away with trying to change education to much more than is absolutely necessary to make sure students are able to succeed. I just wonder sometimes if maybe we aren't reading too much into where technology can take us. How far might we be by now had the Great Depression not set us back about 100 years technologically? Who's to say that wouldn't happen again? We have to learn from the sudden market crash of 1929 that history is not always predictable. If society follows the path it is currently taking and things go as planned, then Anthony will be absolutely correct about education: it will change and evolve.
“Twenty-first century education won’t be defined by any new technology. It won’t be defined by 1:1 laptop programs or tech-intensive projects. Twenty-first century education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching—a shift towards learner-centered education and creating creative thinkers. Today’s world is no longer content with students who can simply apply the knowledge they learned in school: our generation will be asked to think and operate in ways that traditional education has not, and can not, prepare us for."
To be open minded, I guess I can accept this. However, we should not get too carried away with trying to change education to much more than is absolutely necessary to make sure students are able to succeed. I just wonder sometimes if maybe we aren't reading too much into where technology can take us. How far might we be by now had the Great Depression not set us back about 100 years technologically? Who's to say that wouldn't happen again? We have to learn from the sudden market crash of 1929 that history is not always predictable. If society follows the path it is currently taking and things go as planned, then Anthony will be absolutely correct about education: it will change and evolve.